1313 papers
Neuroscience explores the intricate machinery of the brain and nervous system, seeking to understand how we think, feel, and move. From the microscopic dance of individual neurons to the complex networks that shape our memories and behaviors, this field peels back the layers of our biological selves to reveal the origins of consciousness and disease.
At Gist.Science, we bring these discoveries directly from bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological sciences, to a broader audience. We process every new neuroscience preprint as it is uploaded, transforming dense academic manuscripts into clear, plain-language explanations alongside detailed technical summaries. This ensures that both curious readers and specialists can stay current with the latest breakthroughs before they are formally published.
Below are the latest neuroscience papers we have processed from bioRxiv, offering fresh insights into the workings of the mind.
This study demonstrates that superior colliculus neuronal activity, particularly visual response strength in visual-motor neurons, exhibits significantly stronger covariation with eye movement timing variability than primary visual cortex activity, suggesting the SC reformats sensory inputs to directly support visually-driven orienting.
This study demonstrates that the human hippocampus rapidly integrates representations of newly connected environmental sequences shortly after learning, creating novel activity patterns that enable flexible, multi-step predictions and adaptive behavior.
This study identifies a novel mechanosensory circuit in *Drosophila* where TMC-expressing multidendritic neurons in the lateral oviducts detect contractions and provide feedback to ILP7 motoneurons, thereby fine-tuning rhythmic muscle activity to ensure coordinated ovulation and prevent egg jamming.
This study demonstrates that a closed-loop EEG-guided tACS system can adaptively control cortical beta synchrony in healthy humans, where anti-phase stimulation suppresses beta activity and impairs motor inhibition, while in-phase stimulation stabilizes motor states, establishing a mechanistic framework for treating pathological beta synchrony in conditions like Parkinson's disease.
This study demonstrates that the nucleus accumbens and anterior insula encode romantic partners in a manner distinct from mere familiarity, with the former showing reduced partner-specific coding as relationships mature and the latter linking greater specificity to increased intrusive thoughts about the partner.
This study identifies a specific GABAergic pathway from the ventral tegmental area to the oral pontine reticular nucleus that biases backward locomotion through a dual mechanism of local intra-VTA inhibition and distal projection-mediated engagement.
This study demonstrates that prolonged exposure to continuous tones at typical conversational levels (65 dB SPL) can induce frequency-specific hearing impairment and alter auditory processing in the brain, challenging current public health guidelines and suggesting ABR testing as a potential diagnostic tool for hidden hearing loss.
This study demonstrates that probability learning in dynamic environments relies on the computationally rational integration of distinct uncertainty factors, where phasic and tonic pupil dilations respectively track change point probability and prior uncertainty to modulate learning rates.
Using two-photon calcium imaging in mice during trace-eyeblink conditioning, this study reveals that hippocampal time cells form a fixed sequence triggered by the conditioned stimulus that persists for over five seconds and is actively suppressed during extinction, rather than remapping or rescaling to accommodate different trace intervals.
This study reveals that in *Drosophila*, the transcription factor Hunchback drives cell body clustering of Moonwalker Descending Neurons via the Lar adhesion pathway, which is essential for enabling gap junction-mediated synchronous firing required to initiate backward locomotion.